GodisaGeek: "Colm and Adam have played Project Cars, and have some thoughts. Footage is 1080/60 from the PC preview build".
This video explains why we think Electronic Arts didn't see a future in the sim racing title Project CARS and promptly cancelled the fourth instalment.
After the last installment I’d say most hardcore fans left. It’s just not that good anymore so I can’t really blame EA this time.
Ask Bullfrog or Black Box or Tiburon or Studio 33 or Criterion or any of the previously acquired developers who made racing games as competition, or as developers of EA games, then eventually dissolved into oblivion or reassigned. Just ask them. They'll tell you why.
Ian Bell, the founder of Slightly Mad Studios, is aiming to hire former Project CARS employees to work on his upcoming GTR Revival project.
If it's just going to be another sim-cade that doesn't do either one correctly then no thanks.
Project CARS 2 was a step in the right direction but the physics still aren't where they should have been, so what did they do for PC3? Go completely arcade. That killed the franchise.
From GI.biz: "EA is dropping Project CARS, GamesIndustry.biz can reveal.
The Slightly Mad Studios-developed series was launched in 2015, with EA confirming today that it has made the decision to "stop further development and investment" in the franchise.
The announcement was made internally and it's unclear at this stage to which extent staff could be affected. EA said that employees working on Project CARS will be moved into "suitable" roles "wherever [they] can.""
Typical for EA. They buy studios that created nice games..and are sooner or later destroying them and move the people to work on the old same 5+ EA series.
and instead they come out with that piece of shit of Need for Speed which looks like an Anna & Barbera cartoon. C'mon .... PC2 was my go to game for VR racing and the first one i played for tens of hours. i was so lookiing forward to PC4 after that failure of PC3 ... what a shame EA, they are bombing all the good games and stick to the garbage ones. EA when you think you have reached maximum of disappointment they top it off with style .... screw them!
What they did to this series was idiotic. The premise was great -- a sim/simcade game that GENUINELY got developed in line with its community. There is a huge gap in the market for this...I mean, PD hasn't listened to fans at all over the last year with regard to simple Gran Turismo 7 tweaks. Sim racing fans are screaming for a title where they actually give a shit about their users.
Project Cars 2 was genuinely on to something, it just needed some refinement. But instead they followed up by selling off to EA with a braindead GRID clone with Project Cars 3. Again...idiotic.
Well it's been over a year and finally another racing game will get 1080p 60fps and join Forza 5.
Like these guys said, "we'll have to wait for the final build", but right now it sounds as though Forza 5 and Forza Horizon 2 will retain their metacritic crowns for next gen licence racers.
Edit @ DarkOcelet, your comment about micro transactions tells me that you have NEVER owned Forza 5. Check your comment history
Edit 2 @ orangepowerz, another Forza 5 comment from someone who NEVER owned the game, take the quote from Evolution studios about taking 5 months to build a next gen car for the game. If Turn10 wanted to pull a Polyphony Digital and throw in last gen cars and later add generic interiors, then there would be more cars. I'm happy Turn10 has higher standards like Evolution Studios. BTW Turn10 launched onetime with hundreds of cars, Evolution a year late with 50. And Turn10 graphics are spectacular, save your desperation comments about 2D crowds for ppl who aren't interested in what's important, the quality of racing and looks of the cars and tracks.
Dont know what that guy is talking about. Project Cars looks great. 45 Cars on Track ffs! And Gameplay is getting ironed out now
lol is so damn hilarious how some haters talk about Driveclub about being only about graphics, the truth is that if this people actually played the game they wouldn't say that. I played lots I mean lots of times DC, not only its visuals are stunning but the game is challenging as hell, the first races in Driveclub getting first place with is pretty damn easy but once you get to the high perfomance cars forget about getting first place, 2nd or even 3rd, you will have to be on your toes every single second if you want to get into the first three positions, you can be at first place at some point but make a mistake and you will probably get to last place in just a few seconds, also the thing I just said is when playing in normal weather, tweak a little bit the weather before the race starts forget about you have gaming racing skills, the race will owned you!!
Games like Forza, Project Gotham, Gran Turismo, hell even some F1 PC games, yes I have played all of those is pretty darn easy most of the time to get a first place, well GT gets kinda crazy at the end, but Driveclub holy damn!